Journalism, a dangerous profession in northern Paraguay

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A Paraguayan radio journalist has been shot to death in a Brazilian city bordering a crime-ridden area that is a hotbed for drugs and arms smuggling, officials said on Friday. Gerardo Servian worked for a local radio station near the city of Pedro Juan Caballero. Read full article

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ilsen
“shot nine times on a street by unidentified gunmen who escaped in a motorcycle”
sadly, this type of murder is becoming endemic in several Lat Am States.

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also, for those interested in the varied threats that Lat Am journalists/commentators have to live with...
http://panampost.com/rebeca-morla/2015/03/05/isis-radical-threatens-ecuadors-top-cartoonist-with-death/

And you thought it was just their own despotic Govt.s.!?!?!!

(with the exclusion of Chile)
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